question: I understand that the .perl method of a value will generate Perl code that when evaluated will produce that value ... now, is there a similar method that produces a Perl AST for that code instead of the code as a string? ... eg, similar to what a macro definition could receive as input

"rjalex" at 88.149.165.0 pasted "Please be as rude as possible ! 8-) have a dir full of files which begin with four digits. need to flag those missing and duplicates" (29 lines, 502B) at http://sial.org/pbot/23930

So, I was walking down the hallway at work and was thinking of moose. moose moose, I said to myself, as I often do. Then I saw my work roommate and prompted him to think of an animal. "Camel", he said.